These Were Vogue’s Top 10 Most-Read Culture Stories of 2018

It can be easy when you’re writing primarily for the Internet and its insatiable appetite for “content” to get a little cynical about what it is, exactly, that people want to read. (This is the kind of calculus that has both created and promulgated reality television stars and their ilk.) And yet, sometimes, even we who think about this stuff professionally are surprised by our end-of-year tallies. Who would have thought that a documentary film review would be our third most buzzed-about story of the year? Or that Madonna, Queen of Pop, still had it over the hottest soccer players at the World Cup? Or that you still really loved romantic comedies? Or that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would exceed even our brazen prediction of a headline? (Okay, we kind of did know that, but you get the point.)

9. Confessions of a Recovering Wannabe Carrie Bradshaw“Sex and the City was a lovely, imperfect, myopic dream invented, like most television shows, in a writers’ room,” Julia Felsenthal writes. “Why did we, especially those of us who might have known better, expect otherwise?”